Vegetative key to the families

ROOTLESS EPIPHYTIC PARASITES.
Either; stems robust, erect or pendulous and with well developed leaves; or, stems flat, 3–9 mm wide and bearing scale-like leaves
Leaves well developed Loranthaceae
Epiphytic parasites
Anthers adnate; filaments not tapering at the summit but passing imperceptibly into the anthers
Petals free or very shortly connate at the base. Flowers in an umbel of 2–3-flowered cymes or umbels Amyema
Petals connate into a tube for the greater part of their length